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Photo: Mike Rosely
LINSEY DAWN COMES TO AMERICA!
World famous erotic dancer and Page 3 girl from London "Linsey Dawn McKenzie" was on sight in sunny South Beach Miami for the recent Winter Music Conference 2000. PURE Promoter Charles Little ran into her and very pleasingly had his photo taken with both Linsey and her sister Joe! Lucky chap eh? You can see more of Lovely Linsey at www.linseysworld.com
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO KARMA?
Chicago's DJ Dayhota gets the inside scoop on Karma's closing from the inside out.

On the 24th of February something terrible happened in our club community. The word rang from cel phone to cel phone..."Karma's closed! Just like that?! Yeah just like that!", or so it seemed. In that second , when I found out, a million questions ran through my mind. These questions began at "What?!?" and kept going all the way to "So now what?!?"...

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Interview
Name: Michelle Hardesty
Age: 21
Where from: Chicago
Occupation: Massage Therapist

D: How did you feel about Karma prior to it's closing?
Michelle: I love Karma, I love the three floors, I love that you can go to the VIP (lounge) and chill, I love that you can go to the bottom floor and just...like mellow out...

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Interview
Name: Michelle Hardesty
Age: 21
Where from: Chicago
Occupation: Massage Therapist

D: How did you feel about Karma prior to it's closing?
Marisa: Well, I would only go there on Thursday and Saturday nights. Mostly Thursdays for what was going on, for John (Curly) and for the events. I liked Karma. I liked the space but I didn't like the crowd too much...

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Name: Raksh Thakkar
occupation: club proprietor (Karma)
from: Chicago
words by: DJ Dayhota

D: What happened...tell me everything that led to Karma's closing?
Raksh: The harrasement started the first day we opened. The city came after us and shut us down on our very first night. That was all caused, in our opinion, by our landlord cashing in a political favor. In the early days of Karma, he had plans on demolishing the building...

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